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After reading Rami Abadir’s “The contradictions of independent music,” I wanted to offer two alternative ideas. The first concerns the confusion between independent and alternative music. While Abadir writes that…
There is one exhibit in London which gives me near-religious feelings. In the Museum of London, a display shows large photos of suffragettes in the process of being arrested, and…
Fatigued by a year of void legal processes and deprivation of basic rights, political prisoners are attempting to break the cycle of helplessness with the one bit of control they…
MF Kalfat takes an in-depth, critical look at Ahmad Abdallah's film Microphone and its treatment of Egyptian music.
Tackling the idea that a man's value is his capacity for vengeance, and a woman’s chastity is more important than her life
"We call on every Egyptian who isn't in need of the ration card or the subsidy to willingly give up the card. If you have a high income, don't burden…
In December 2013, Sayed Abdullah lay asleep in his bed. He didn't know that in the adjacent street, in an apartment carrying the same number as his own, lived a…
Soon after the Permanent Bureau of the Afro-Asian Writers Association in Cairo folded, a poet from Pakistan by the name of Faiz Ahmed Faiz arrived in Beirut to take over…
KarTag, a mobile phone application designed to help people organize carpools through their networks of Facebook friends, was launched in May 2013, but initially did not receive much success. A…
Standing in her small kitchen to prepare lunch for her two boys before they come back from school, Mona speaks about regret. Mona, who prefers not to mention her real…
In a seminar on the "Arab Spring" at the University of Michigan, I assumed that the young white woman sitting next to me was a student of Middle Eastern studies.
On the surface, Bashir al-Deek's Halaa Housh is just another slapstick comedy, writes Hanaa Safwat.
On July 18, the state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram ran a spread from the Ministry of Social Solidarity on the 22nd page, the first widely circulated notice of its kind. The government’s…
At the height of the dispersal of the Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in, a group of 20 friends stood in the field hospital and agreed to take shelter in a side street…
On June 30, 2013, the complex political map of Egypt was reduced to an uneven binary. The Muslim Brotherhood stood on one side, while all major political forces were momentarily aligned as…
Mosaab Elshamy, a photojournalist trained as a pharmacist, provided an indelible photographic document of the dispersal of the Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in on August 14, 2013.
There are very few times in life when it is appropriate to lay down in the middle of a room while listening to throbbing electronic music. More often than not,…
Poverty, sexual needs and corruption in all areas of life permeate the show, and are frankly and openly depicted through brilliant acting.
In early July, the government restructured petroleum product subsidies, raising diesel and 80-octane gasoline prices in particular, and leading to heightened fears of subsequent price hikes on other commodities. Mada…
I became curious about Udi Aloni’s feature film Forgiveness (2006) after I read his article for Mondoweiss criticizing the Israeli left’s ideological failure and ultimate position of “territorial compromise,” namely…
